Famous Quotes in Domaining :
It hurts when reality doesn’t go along with your dreams and hopes. In domaining, tears could mean joy as well as dreams can turn into nightmares. Buying the wrong names. Selling the wrong price. I’ve been there, done that. I even ate my shoes several times. But, I believe that a true winner is determined by overcoming defeats. That’s why I’m going to list some of the famous quotes in domaining world for those who need inspiration.
Believe me, in domaining, ANYTHING can happen in a split second.
You are what you register – Seminarist.com
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“Domains have and will continue to go up in value faster than any other commodity ever known to man” — Bill Gates
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“We (me and my wife) ended up selling as much of our stuff as possible to invest in domains. The magical point came when our living expenses were covered and we just kept on reinvesting to grow the cashflow.” — Michael Gilmour
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“They’d say (the investors), ‘No one will ever have a TV and a computer in the same room,’” recalls Shelby Bonnie, CNET Co-Founder.
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“Another example of this is the word ‘ringtones.’ It is worth millions right now, but five years ago, it wasn’t worth 50 bucks. If you see a trend or something that you see coming out that the next guy doesn’t–spend ten bucks and buy up that name.”
– Marc Ostrofsky, President of Internet REIT
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“If you ask 10 different experts, they are sure to tell you 10 different things (about domain’s value).” — Christian Kalled, director of brokerage for Sedo North America.
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“We got something for $150,000. If they had wanted $5 million, I would have done it in a blink of an eye.” — Call Tabibi, founder of UnRealEstate.com.
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Dotcom will become in our corporate language like Inc. or Co. or Corp. – a generic way of describing a company, in this case a company that does business on the Internet. (Clive Chajet)
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The classic development questions need to be reformulated for a 21st century economy . . . will the poor continue to be left behind, will the wealth of information be hoarded by an elite? (K Y Amoako)
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Broadband is like a narcotic. Once you have it, you won’t be able to give it up. (Lynn Forrester)
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We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on one million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. (Robert Wilensky)
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We are all unrealistic domain owners. (DotComGod)
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Brother, can you spare a domain? (Acroplex)
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“We grew up in a working class neighborhood of Vancouver and then gradually moved to better neighborhoods, but during that transition, I saw that to really do anything, you need to not only work hard, but also think about how you work.” Kevin Ham quoted on DNJournal
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“If you have the money, purchase the best domain name you can get your hands on. But remember the golden rule: a domain name is only worth what you can do with it. We’ve turned down $5,000,000 for PalmSprings.com and didn’t think twice about it because we’ve monetized it so well. However, in someone else’s hands, PalmSprings.com could have been parked or less developed and worth nowhere near as much. If you have the talent and vision to develop a generic mega-domain, please give people like us a call.” — David Castello
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“You can be the king of any industry you want online with the right domain name, even if you know nothing about it!.” (I find myself always telling people this, and the “woulda coulda shoulda” line in my
sales threads) — Chris Williams
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“Good Names Are Not Cheap – Cheap Names Are Not Good” — Johnn
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“what’s the value of a click, if that click leads to the sale of a $20m plane…?” — Rick Schwartz.
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“You are what you register.” — Seminarist.com
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“I would never sell my Children” Kevin Ham – TRAFFIC Las Vegas Feb. 2008
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“I guess I was afraid to smile because I was worried the audience would not bid if I looked like I was happy about making money.” — Rick Latona
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“I don’t think you can go wrong with .com no matter what you do.” — Elliot J. Silver
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“95% of all the domains I get are hand registered.” — Rick Schwartz, interviewed at dnkitchen.com
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Vida.com was just sold for $70,000 at namejet. The name was dropped by someone who’s not interested. It means – “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” — Unknown
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“What doesn’t sell for a dollar today may sell for ten dollars tomorrow” — Unknown
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“The sales I most regret are the ones I don’t make.” -me (in an NP thread where I discussed how I had sold 1,700 domains last year) — Randomo
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“Don’t buy a name you aren’t willing to own if you aren’t able to sell it.” – Rick Latona
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Four or five years ago, some silver spooner in Newport RI said this to me when I suggested investing in domains. “Sure, there are a lot of guys trading them like baseball cards, but why would I want to invest?”
Daddy Halbucks
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“If you registered it today, it’s worthless today.” — pcproffenno
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“I shape my future with the names I buy. I shape the future of my loved ones with the names I sell.”
— Chris Desouza
